Week2 - Myanmar jade mine

Nearly 100 bodies have been pulled from a landslide near a jade mine in Myanmar's northern Kachin State, local officials said, and hopes are dwindling that any of the estimated 100 people still missing will be found alive.

Mines and dump sites for debris in Myanmar are rife with hazards and landslides are not uncommon, though rarely this deadly.The landslide happened in the early hours of Saturday in Hpakant, an area that produces some of the world's highest-quality jade.

As of 4:00pm yesterday local time, 97 bodies had been pulled from the landslide, according to Tin Swe Myint, head of the Hpakant Township Administration Department.

"We just don't know how many people exactly were buried since we don't have any data on people living there," he said.That number was expected to rise, but it remains unclear exactly how many people may be buried.

"It was just a slum with these ... workers living in makeshift tents. Nobody knows for sure how many and where they had come from."

Workers, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, toil long hours for little pay searching for precious jade stones.An official with the Hpakant Township Fire Brigade who asked not to be named said an estimated 100 people were still missing.

The state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said many of the miners were sleeping in huts when the landslide occurred.

The landslide occurred at around 3:00am (local time) when many miners were sleeping, according to Ko Sai, a miner who was sleeping at a nearby camp.

It was unclear what triggered the landslide in the remote and mountainous region that is almost entirely off limits to foreigners.

"We just heard a loud noise sounding like thunder and saw that the huge mountain collapsed and a huge wave of rubble was moving and sprawling on a wide area," Ko Sai said.

"It was just like a nightmare."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-22/at-least-90-dead-in-jade-mine-landslide-in-myanmar/6962122

Structure of the Lead

      WHO-  miners and people living there

      WHEN- The landslide occurred at around 3:00am (local time) when many miners were sleeping

      WHAT-   landslide 

      WHY- It was unclear what triggered the landslide

      WHERE-  Myanmar

      HOW - 97 bodies had been pulled from the landslide,

keywords 

1.dwindle 縮小

2.debris 瓦礫

3.slum 貧民窟

4.makeshift tents 臨時搭建帳篷

5.toil 辛勞

6.rubble 瓦礫

7.sprawling 蔓延